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2022-05-13

by shaenon on May 13, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Phantomwise
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  1. Moe Lane
    May 13, 2022, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Soooo… they’re gonna be there for fifty years, then?

    • Landis963
      May 13, 2022, 12:33 am | # | Reply

      That’s what I’m thinking. Can’t be worse than what IRA did with all that power.

      • Moe Lane
        May 13, 2022, 1:33 pm | # | Reply

        “They want us to build Dream Park!”
        “Have there been extirpations?”
        “Do you know how much tim-”
        “Have. There Been. Extirpations?”
        “Well, no.”
        “Are they still signing the budgets we give them?”
        “…Yes.”
        “Then shaddap.”

        • Shadowmehr
          May 13, 2022, 9:26 pm | # | Reply

          No extirpations and they get to field test the rides for free. Sounds like a good deal to me. (Probably light years better than some previous assignments.)

    • Duane B.
      May 13, 2022, 12:37 am | # | Reply

      I wonder how long Mr. Green was trying to bring down A-sig?
      Working at Skin Horse as Ira, molding the team, shepherding careers,

      It’s more likely than Skin Horse just happened.

      • Robert Nowall
        May 13, 2022, 11:17 am | # | Reply

        With Mell, mallets just happen. With Tip, outfit changes just happen. With Mr. Green, Skin Horses just happen.

    • TheItzal
      May 13, 2022, 2:49 am | # | Reply

      I can’t remember, is Asig a private company working as a govt contractor or is it an actual govt agency… cause if it’s the latter then it’s never going away.

      • awgiedawgie
        May 13, 2022, 4:59 pm | # | Reply

        They are a private contractor working for the government. Hence their claim to be “shadow government”. And yes, somewhere in the archives, there is actual confirmation that they are a private contractor working for the government. I just don’t have any free time during the next few days to hunt it down.

        But if their board of directors is the Five Daves, they’re never going away anyway.

  2. OneUniverse
    May 13, 2022, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    If they want legendary incompetence and graft they’d be hard pressed to beat the Russian Confederation. Just sayin’.

    • harryvoyager
      May 13, 2022, 1:12 am | # | Reply

      Heck, that’s how Soyuz started. The Soviets have Korolev an unlimited budget to build an ICBM. So he built a space rocket instead. Heck, they’re still using its descendents. Probably the most successful scam in history.

      And for his reward? Soviet medicine managed to kill him by accident. No-one is entirely sure what happened or what he was in for. May have been hemroids, or it might have been a gallbladder problem. Apparently after the botch, everyone involved obfustrocated vigorously.

      • Wizard
        May 13, 2022, 7:19 am | # | Reply

        The only difference between a space rocket and an ICBM is what you put on top of it. Anything capable of boosting a satellite into orbit is automatically capable of dropping a bomb on the other side of the world, and vice versa.

        • harryvoyager
          May 13, 2022, 9:07 am | # | Reply

          That’s true the same way that anything with wings and a large internal volume plus lift capacity can be a bomber, but it doesn’t mean a DC-3 is the same thing as an A-20.

          • skullthetroll
            May 13, 2022, 9:47 am | #

            All rockets of the 50’s and 60’s were ICBM’s First. The Redstone rocket that put Shepard in space and Glenn in orbit were used as ICBM’s carrying the W-39 warhead. The Atlas that did the prep research and the lunar orbiters was an ICBM. Right down the line with all of them.

          • harryvoyager
            May 13, 2022, 11:00 am | #

            The US rockets were, yes, but if you look at the R-7 design it was not.

            He was contracted to deliver an ICBM, and it can be an ICBM, same as the Space Shuttle could be, but it is a terrible ICBM. It was, and still is, and excellent space rocket, with relatively little modification.

          • davidbreslin101
            May 13, 2022, 12:40 pm | #

            Alien historians: “The evidence suggests that Earthling nations competed for mating rights with a display of impractically large ballistic missiles”

          • Robert Nowall
            May 13, 2022, 7:35 pm | #

            Re: skulltroll: till you get to the Saturn series, though their existence derives from the earlier ICBMs.

      • Thomas Carman
        May 13, 2022, 8:33 am | # | Reply

        Stalin tossed Korolev in the gulag in the late 1930’s, and he was “rehabilitated” when they needed good engineers. But the damage to his health eventually caught up with him.

      • Robert Nowall
        May 13, 2022, 7:38 pm | # | Reply

        Khruschev liked a good show so he could show off in front of the world. Also they announced they’d send up a satellite or two for the International Geophysical Year, but nobody paid attention.

        (Also Von Braun could’a done it earlier than Sputnik, back as far as 1955, I think. It was reported later he had one loaded and ready to go when he got shut down.)

      • StClair
        May 13, 2022, 9:07 pm | # | Reply

        And Soyuz I, and the Party’s insistence that ready or not, it must fly on Lenin’s birthday, killed Komarov.

  3. David B Huber
    May 13, 2022, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Looks like Tip is *still* wearing his prison garb!

    I wonder if Dr. Engelbright is their pilot?

    • Candace
      May 13, 2022, 1:28 am | # | Reply

      Well, I don’t think Mell brought him anything but tennis shoes.

      • Duane B.
        May 13, 2022, 1:52 am | # | Reply

        I’m sure Tip could MAKE it work!

        • Candace
          May 17, 2022, 12:36 am | # | Reply

          If he were motivated, yes. I believe he currently lacks motivation to mojo.

  4. Robert Nowall
    May 13, 2022, 6:16 am | # | Reply

    (1) Who’s flying the helicopter? and (2) where are they going?

    • David B Huber
      May 13, 2022, 10:46 am | # | Reply

      I predict Dr. Engelbright with Ari Green as copilot.

      • Robert Nowall
        May 13, 2022, 11:16 am | # | Reply

        It’s a different model than the one the two of them flew off in.

        I was thinking…well, remember Trinity? Maybe the Whirligig project got another copter and another brain in a jar to run it.

        Maybe Nick could get upset that the three of them were taking copter from someone else.

    • davidbreslin101
      May 13, 2022, 12:43 pm | # | Reply

      Prosaic explanation: Anasigma has pilots. Non-prosaic explantion: the helicopter is sentient, but Tip is too distracted by his wardrobe catastrophe to pull a Groom Lake with it.

  5. Robert Nowall
    May 13, 2022, 12:52 pm | # | Reply

    It’s only a matter of time, till Chris will be proven sub-prime. With moon meetings planned, he’s sure to be panned. It’s the newest A-Sig paradigm.

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